gourde
/ɡʊəd
/noun
The basic monetary unit of Haiti, equal to 100 centimes.As we're leaving he asks for 500 gourdes....
- Conditions for the masses continue to deteriorate, with the value of the national currency, the gourde, falling from 15 to the dollar in 1996 to 24 to the dollar today.
- First, the warehousemen's union was recently informed that a job that normally pays 10,000 gourdes would henceforth pay 2,000 gourdes.
Origin
The Franco-American name for a dollar.
- by (or in) virtue of
- by (or of) the name of
- by (or on) one's lonesome
- by (or on) request
- by (or through) the back door
- by (or with) your leave
- by ourselves
- by parol
- bypass
- bypath
- byplay
- bypoll
- by-product
- BYR
- Byrd, Charlie
- Byrd, Richard
- Byrd, Robert Carlyle
- Byrds
- Byrd, William
- byre
- by reason of
- by return (of post)
- by rights
- Byrnes, James Francis
- byrnie